Word: dismissiveness
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...Desdemona is that fear some creature, the play within a play Constance Ledbelly (Lindsey Richardson), a frumpish assistant professor from Queens, is struggling with the slings and arrows of outrageous academia. She endures an arrogant and exploitative senior professor, his disdainful girlfriend, and the ridicule of her peers, who dismiss her theory that Romeo and Juliet and Othello were adapted by Shakespeare from lost originals in which they were comedies...
...sign held by a Red Sox fan at Wednesday's Fenway opener was accurate. "How quickly we forget," it read. We should not be so quick to dismiss the greed and corruption of the past with token gestures by the players and the owners...
...attorney, Norman A. Pattis, asked the judge to dismiss the first degree larceny charge...
...skeptics are quick to dismiss theseconsistent reports by charging that therapists areinfluencing their patients, especially duringhypnotic sessions when the abduction memories areretrieved...
Saying she had "more pressing" interests,Winnie Mandelaresigned from her Cabinet post one day before her estranged husband, President Nelson Mandela, was to dismiss her. Mrs. Mandela will remain an ANC member of Parliament and athorn in the president's side...